Accessibility Links

SFA threatens to double Hearts fines

THE Scottish Football Association has told Craig Levein, the Heart of Midlothian manager, and Phil Stamp, his midfield player, that their fines will be doubled if they do not hurry up and pay.

The pair were expected to attend a hearing at Hampden Park on Monday but neither did so. Now the SFA’s general purposes committee has decided to get tough on the pair for failing to pay fines of £1,000 and £250, respectively.

The sanctions were imposed in May after comments about Douglas McDonald, the referee, following the 1-0 defeat at Kilmarnock which saw both Austin McCann and Andy Webster sent off. Stamp described the official as the worst he had ever seen while Levein claimed he had lost count of the mistakes McDonald…